Day 082h: All called to Continue … (July 05, 2019)
Well fail at times in life and we all fall into pitfalls along The Way. That said, the measure of our making is not in knowing those inevitable plummets, but rather in how we choose to respond to the same …
“The only consolation in times of trial or darkness is that, though one could have thrown it all away at any time, one didn’t. One chose to endure instead – one chose to rise anew. Without any assurance of immortality, or success, or even trifling competence, one only knows one has not been cheated out of the consolation of the persistent – the carpenters and the teachers and the doctors and the ditch-diggers; all those ordinary people who choose do useful things to be happy; all those who choose to serve those in need. Go ahead then – keep meandering forward through your life, even if it means doing so half blind and a little mad and cluelessly wondering what it was you learned. For atthe very least you will come to appreciate a truly Great Knowing – namely, the terrifying fact that had you thrown it all away, had you quit instead of pushing onward, your wound would have grown ever deeper and indeed never would have healed.” ~ inspired by Samuel Delany
“Nothing is ever as rewarding as walking tall in love on the same road that once witnessed your stumble into self.” ~ inspired by Olaotan Fawehinmi
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